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break loose
verb
1 break loose
2 break loose
Run away from confinement.
synonyms: escape, get away.
Roget 750:
liberate,
free;
set free,
set clear,
set at liberty;
render free,
emancipate,
release;
enfranchise,
affranchise†;
manumit;
enlarge;
disband,
discharge,
disenthrall,
disenthral,
dismiss;
let go,
let loose,
loose,
let out,
let slip;
cast adrift,
turn adrift;
deliver
etc.
672;
absolve
etc.
(acquit)
970.
unfetter
etc.
751,
untie
etc.
43;
loose
etc.
(disjoin)
44;
loosen,
relax;
unbolt,
unbar,
unclose,
uncork,
unclog,
unhand,
unbind,
unchain,
unharness,
unleash;
disengage,
disentangle;
clear,
extricate,
unloose.
gain one's liberty,
obtain one's liberty,
acquire one's liberty
etc.
748;
get rid of,
get clear of;
deliver oneself from;
shake off the yoke,
slip the collar;
break loose,
break prison;
tear asunder one's bonds,
cast off trammels;
escape
etc.
671.
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Roget 671:
escape,
scape;
make one's escape,
effect one's escape,
make good one's escape;
break jail;
get off,
get clear off,
get well out of;
echapper belle [Fr.],
save one's bacon,
save one's skin;
weather the storm
etc.
(safe)
664;
escape scot-free.
elude
&c.,
make off
etc.
(avoid)
623;
march off
etc.
(go away)
293;
give one the slip;
slip through the hands,
slip through the fingers;
slip the collar,
wriggle out of prison,
break out,
break loose,
break loose from prison;
break away,
slip away,
get away;
find vent,
find a hole to creep out of.
disappear,
vanish.
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Dutch: ontvlieden, ontvluchten, vlieden
Moby thesaurus: bail out, break away, break jail, break out, clear, cut loose, disembarrass, disembroil, disengage, disentangle, disinvolve, dislodge, escape, escape prison, evade, extricate, flee, fly the coop, free, get away, get clear of, get free, get out, get out of, jump, make a getaway, release, skip, slip the collar, tear loose, unknot, unravel, unsnarl, untangle ... show more.
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